Ways to finance your participation

There are many ways to finance your participation in the 2019 REACH(c) Whole School Reform: How Do We Push Past the Perceptions of Race and Poverty to Attain High Student Achievement. If the suggestions listed below are not viable options for your participation, please contact us for other options.

Title I Funding: Districts' and schools' Title I funding should be partially used to ensure staff members and families receive effective professional development. The expectations for using this funding includes providing professional development to staff via contracting consulting and sending staff to attend conferences off-site.

School Improvement Grants: Districts and schools that receive funding for improvement are expected to ensure the funding is partially used to provide exceptional professional development to all staff members and families. Similar to the expectations for Title I, funding use includes providing professional development to staff via contracting consulting and sending staff to attend conferences off-site.

Tax Levy: All districts and schools receive tax levy funds as a major portion of their overall budgets. These funds have great flexibility and may be used to attend off-site professional development conferences.

Special Grants and Other Funding: Some schools receive special funding and sponsorship to implement programs or develop certain skill sets that lead to improved teacher practices, increased student achievement and effective family supports. All of these goals will be addressed during the three-day conference. Therefore staff of community-based organizations, members of school leadership teams, teachers, coaches, support staff, school leaders, and engaged parents will find this conference informative and useful in their future endeavors.

Convince Your School Board

When you need school board approval

This conference will be a great place for superintendents to attend and meet with other district leaders who would like to address the issues that prevent the achievement and sustainability of high expectation and achievement. We will also host a Superintendents' Round Table (if enough interest is shown) where topics, including Chris Argyris' undiscussables are addressed. Click below to retrieve a letter you can give to your school board members to explain why this conference is worthy of your attendance.

when you need your superintendent's approval

School leaders and district staff members will surely be able to grow their toolkit for addressing issues aligned to high expectations, racial tensions, poverty, and student achievement. Click below to get retrieve a letter you can give to your superintendent to explain why this conference is worthy of your attendance.

when you need your school leader's approval

The smartest teachers know that they need to stay abreast of the newest strategies to address students' growing socio-emotional and academic needs. Take the steps necessary to ensure your spot at the table so that you can be prepared to effectively contribute towards your school's and district's goals by improving student achievement. Click below to retrieve a letter you can give to your principal to explain why this conference is worthy of your attendance.